Sriracha is a mainstay in many Australian households. So, who's the refugee behind the billion-dollar condiment brand?
David Tran, the man behind the hot sauce bottle in your pantry, has now become a billionaire.
Sriracha is widely-known around the globe as a cult condiment that's been a mainstay in households for decades, but very few know about the Vietnamese refugee who brought the sauce to their dinner tables. His family's vision to turn chilli into sauce was cut short when the Communist Vietnamese government cracked down against ethnic Chinese people in 1978.He later fled the country in December 1978 with more than 3,000 refugees in a freighter called the Huey Fong.
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